WASCOM 2007 14th Conference on Waves And Stability In Continuous Media: Baia Samuele, Sicily, Italy, 30 June - 7 July, 2007

by Manganaro, Natale; Monaco, Roberto; Rionero, Salvatore

• ISBN13: 9789812772343
• ISBN10: 9812772340
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Reciprocal Transformations and Integrable Hamiltonian Hydrodynamic Type Systems	p. 1
Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Wave Propagation in Partially Saturated Porous Media	p. 7
Application of Generalized Observables to Stochastic Quantum Models in Phase Space	p. 13
A Hydrodynamic Model for Semiconductors with Field-Dependent Mobility	p. 19
Stock Markets and the Operator Number Representation	p. 25
An Application of Extended Thermodynamics and Fluctuation Principle to Stationary Heat Conduction in Radial Symmetry	p. 31
Quantitative Estimates for the Large Time Behavior of a Reaction-Diffusion Equation with Rational Reaction Term	p. 38
Linearized Euler s Variational Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates	p. 44
A 3-Dimensional Inverse Problem of Geometrical Optics for Continuous Isotropic Inhomogeneous Media	p. 54
Derivation of a Quantum Hydrodynamic Model in the High-Field Case	p. 60
On the Magnetic Rayleigh-Benard Problem for Compressible Fluids	p. 66
Solutions of Some Coupled Korteweg-de-Vries Equations in Terms of Hyperelliptic Functions of Genus Two	p. 72
A Global Stability Result for a Certain Bilinear System	p. 78
Restabilizing Forcing for a Diffusive Prey-Predator Model	p. 84
Mathematical Study of the Planar Oscillations of a Heavy, almost Homogeneous Liquid in a Container	p. 90
Diffusion-Driven Stability for Beddington-DeAngelis Predator-Prey Model	p. 96
Localized Structures in a Dusty Plasma	p. 102
Fluid Dynamical Features of the Weak KAM Theory	p. 108
Ricci Flow Deformation of Cosmological Initial Data Sets	p. 118
Backlund Charts & Applications	p. 128
A Paradox in Life Thermodynamics: The Long-Term Survival of Bacterial Populations	p. 135
The Macroscopic Relativistic Model in Extended Thermodynamics, Part I: A First Type of its Subsystems	p. 141
The Macroscopic Relativistic Model in Extended Thermodynamics, Part II: The Second Type of its Subsystems	p. 147
Fuchsian Partial Differential Equations	p. 153
On the Generalized Riemann Problem for a 2 x 2 System of Balance Laws	p. 162
Boltzmann-Type Equations for Chain Reactions Modeling	p. 168
Analytic Structure of the Four-Wave Mixing Model in Photoreactive Material	p. 177
On Non-Homogeneous Quasilinear 2 x 2 Systems Equivalent to Homogeneous and Autonomous Ones	p. 187
On the Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model	p. 193
High Reynolds Number Navier-Stokes Solutions and Boundary Layer Separation Induced by a Rectilinear Vortex Array	p. 199
A Note about Waves in Dissipative and Dispersive Solids	p. 210
Non Local Thermodynamical Equilibrium Line Radiative Transfer Quasi Stationary Approximation	p. 218
Exponential and Algebraic Relaxation in Kinetic Models for Wealth Distribution	p. 228
Solitary Waves in Dispersive Materials	p. 239
A Ginzburg-Landau Model for the Ice-Water and Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions	p. 247
Local Error Reduction for First Order Implicit Pseudo-Spectral Methods Applied to Linear Advection Models	p. 258
Positive Schemes for the Advection Equation	p. 264
Travelling-Wave Solutions of a Modified Sine-Gordon Equation Used in Superconductivity	p. 274
Some Remarks on Acceleration Waves in Porous Solids	p. 280
Stability Considerations for Reaction-Diffusion Systems	p. 287
Cross-Diffusion Driven Instability for a Loth-Volterra Competitive Reaction-Diffusion System	p. 297
On a Procedure for Finding Hidden Potential Symmetries	p. 303
Turing Instability for the Schnackenberg System	p. 309
On Nonlinear Stability for a Reaction-Diffusion System Concerning Chemical reactions	p. 315
Radiative Transfer Equations and Rosseland Approximation in Gray Matter	p. 321
A Mechanical Model for Liquid Nanolayers	p. 327
A Particle Method for a Loth-Volterra System with Nonlinear Cross and Self-Diffusion	p. 337
On Shock Structure in Reactive Mixtures	p. 343
Transport Properties of Chemically Reacting Gas Mixtures	p. 350
The Contribution of the Reaction Heat to Non-Equilibrium Effects of Chemically Reacting Gases	p. 360
Nonlinear Closure Relations: A Case from Semiconductors	p. 366
Stability in the BBnard Problems with Competing Effects via the Reduction Method	p. 372
Navier-Stokes in Aperture Domains: Existence with Bounded Flux and Qualitative Properties	p. 378
Unsteady Solutions of PDEs Generated by Steady Solutions	p. 388
On Two-Pulse Interaction in a Class of Model Elastic Materials	p. 394
Interaction between a Shock and an Acceleration Wave in a Perfect Gas for Increasing Shock Strength	p. 405
On a Particle-Size Segregation Equation	p. 411
Modeling of Linear Stability of Planar Detonation Waves in Extended Kinetic Theory	p. 421
On Slow Processes in Piezothermoelastic Plates	p. 427
Problems of Stability and Waves in Biological Systems	p. 453
Multiple Cold and Hot Second Sound Shocks in HE I1	p. 443
Extended Hydrodynamic Model for the Coupled Electron-Phonon System in Silicon Semiconductors	p. 453
Differential Equations and Lie Symmetries	p. 459
A Particle-Mesh Numerical Method for Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Applications to Plankton Modelling	p. 469
Bifurcation Analysis of Equilibria in Competitive Logistic Networks with Adaptation	p. 475
Diffusion Influence on Stability-Instability	p. 485
Stability Properties of the Solutions of a Reaction Diffusion Equation with Robin Boundary Conditions	p. 495
Nonlinear Wave Propagation in an Elastic Soil	p. 502
Modeling the Heating of Semiconductor Crystal Lattice Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle	p. 508
Symmetry Analysis of a Viscoelastic Model	p. 514
Hyperbolic Multi-Temperature Model for Mixtures of Euler Fluids	p. 520
The Incompressibility Assumption Assessment in Fast Fluidized Bed Wave Propagation	p. 530
Solutions to a System of PDEs Invariant with Respect to k Lie Groups	p. 536
Poiseuille Flow of a Fluid Overlying a Porous Media	p. 542
Regularization and Boundary Conditions for the 13 Moment Equations	p. 548
Plane Waves and Vibrations in the Thermoelastic Mixtures	p. 554
Analysis of Heat Conduction Phenomena in a One-Dimensional Hard-Point Gas by Extended Thermodynamics	p. 560
Equivalence Transformations and Differential Invariants for Generalized Wave Equations	p. 570
On the Formulation of the Quantum Extended Thermodynamics by Using the Semiclassical Interpretation of the Wigner Function	p. 576
Approximate Symmetries of a Viscoelastic Model	p. 582
On Waves in Weakly Nonlinear Poroelastic Materials Modeling Impacts of Meteorites	p. 58
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